Challenges

Angela Minaudo on The Spirit of Tomorrow

The Spirit of Tomorrow

My quilt reproduces a photo from the past, when we would gather to build, or to make a blanket as a wedding gift. It is my hope that this atmosphere of collaboration, friendship, and solidarity exists for our society, our groups, and our families. And I hope that patchwork will increasingly become, in its essential purpose, a tool for collaboration and encounter, beyond the techniques, designs, or materials we experiment with from time to time.

I used the appliqué technique with the aid of double-sided hot-melt adhesive and a rough cut. The quilting is done in very dense free motion, reproducing brushstrokes of color. The materials used are shantung silk and polyester yarns, tone-on-tone. Graphically, I chose to posterize the photo with low definition.

Montse Farcadell on "Egypt"

In the Louvre Museum in Paris, several mummies found in the pyramids of Egypt are on display. Wrapped in strips of linen: Could these be the origins of the log cabin quilt?

The background of this quilt is made with strips of bedsheets from my ancestors (my origins), which I dyed with natural dyes: onion skin, tea, coffee, thyme…

With these strips, I created the desert dunes and the pyramids. For the pyramids and the background of the book, I used undyed pillowcases that bear the embroidered initials of my father, Josep Forcadell, my mother, Laura Blasco, and my grandmother, Francisca Serra.

Angela Minaudo on The Spirit of Tomorrow

The Spirit of Tomorrow

My quilt reproduces a photo from the past, when we would gather to build, or to make a blanket as a wedding gift. It is my hope that this atmosphere of collaboration, friendship, and solidarity exists for our society, our groups, and our families. And I hope that patchwork will increasingly become, in its essential purpose, a tool for collaboration and encounter, beyond the techniques, designs, or materials we experiment with from time to time.

I used the appliqué technique with the aid of double-sided hot-melt adhesive and a rough cut. The quilting is done in very dense free motion, reproducing brushstrokes of color. The materials used are shantung silk and polyester yarns, tone-on-tone. Graphically, I chose to posterize the photo with low definition.

Montse Farcadell on "Egypt"

In the Louvre Museum in Paris, several mummies found in the pyramids of Egypt are on display. Wrapped in strips of linen: Could these be the origins of the log cabin quilt?

The background of this quilt is made with strips of bedsheets from my ancestors (my origins), which I dyed with natural dyes: onion skin, tea, coffee, thyme…

With these strips, I created the desert dunes and the pyramids. For the pyramids and the background of the book, I used undyed pillowcases that bear the embroidered initials of my father, Josep Forcadell, my mother, Laura Blasco, and my grandmother, Francisca Serra.